Peter Bradshaw 

Frankie

Peter Bradshaw: Fantastically vapid piece of nonsense.
  
  

Diane Kruger in Frankie (2005)
Diane does depression ... Frankie Photograph: PR

Euro-glam meets Euro-gloom in this fantastically vapid piece of nonsense shot on cheap'n'cheerless digital video. It's a vanity project for its producer-star Diane Kruger, who plays, like, this supermodel? In Paris? Who gets really depressed? And goes to a clinic? And spends lots of time staring out of, like, the window? Trilingual Diane gets to show off her languages a fair bit. There are some inordinately long fashion-shoot scenes showing how she must endure asshole insensitive photographers. The sheer boredom of these sequences, if intentional, could almost count as radical Haneke-style ordeal cinema. This, however, is just an ordeal.

 

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